Networking in France. Is there a French School of Social Network Analysis?

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1007/s12108-017-9350-4

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/459

Title :

Networking in France. Is there a French School of Social Network Analysis?

Author(s) :

Penalva-Icher, Élise [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales [IRISSO]
Eloire, Fabien [Auteur]

Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Journal title :

American Sociologist

Volume number :

48

Pages :

382-401

Publisher :

Springer

Publication date :

2017-07-05

ISSN :

0003-1232

English keyword(s) :

Social network analysis
Disciplinary entrepreneurs
Institutionalization
Sociology of science

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

English abstract : [en]

Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a sociology based on interaction that visualizes and models relations between actors. Whereas interaction is approached by classical scholars, we had to wait until the 1970s and the birth ...
Show more >Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a sociology based on interaction that visualizes and models relations between actors. Whereas interaction is approached by classical scholars, we had to wait until the 1970s and the birth of computer science to see social networks analysis develop. This article investigates the influence of SNA in France from the 1980s and wonder if there is a French school of SNA? To do so, we first resume social networks history and highlight its contribution to sociology. Second, we analyze the trajectory and profile of five “disciplinary entrepreneurs,” whose role in the field is important as they master three necessary languages for SNA: English, Mathematics and Computer Science. Third, in order to put back those individuals in their social structures, we cross SNA with the different French sociological tradition(s) (according to topics and methods). Last, we wonder if the institutionalization process succeeded in the creation of institutions from which a French SNA would be able to expand?Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale

Collections :

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Research team(s) :

Économies et sociétés : développement, richesse, innovation et régulation

Submission date :

2018-10-26T13:04:29Z
2023-03-16T12:17:16Z
2023-07-11T15:44:17Z

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